Because its quick
I am jumping around in topics lately from CSS, to jQuery, to WordPress, to blogging, and now onto Photoshop. This is good though. Something different every day. Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping out someone who wants to learn how to create a websites. After the the short lesson I gave him, he said “Wow…I have a lot to learn.” To which I replied with a simple yes. He had coded a page, and then had me look at it. At which point I broke him of some nasty habits. This bit of teaching had me thinking though. What are some things I see some people do that makes me shake my head, when I know there is an easier way.
The first thing that popped into my brain was watching someone use the eraser tool in Photoshop to take away the background around an image of a person. That is just plain crazy. But there was a second item I thought about just after that nonsense. Slicing up a Photoshop PSD file to be used as a web page. I know people who do things differently, like using guides and then cropping the images necessary. That takes a while, even though I know one guy who is pretty damn quick at it. For me though, slicing is the way to go. It’s quick, easy, and if you need to make a change, there is no cropping involved – just a re-save.
